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Had Padmé been 20-30 years older than anakin instead of 2-3 it wouldve fixed a significant portion of the franchise, including padmé's own chracterization

#(more impressed voice than usual) #i don't even go here #star wars

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I only in the last year or two unlocked the ability to perceive dance as "not silly looking". In college I would look at even skilled dancers and go "yep they are waving their arms while hopping rapidly in accordance with a ruleset that has meaning to them". The pinnacle so far of this perceptive transformation is

asking a question in (group) salsa class on how you can differentiate when your lead is cueing you to do a particular move vs a different move that starts in a similar way

having the instructor take my hand and show me that in fact it's very easy to tell (if your lead is pulling/gesturing correctly, anyway)

and seeing, the moment she commandeered the square comprised by our bodies, an indistinctly pretty person immediately become beautiful by dint of skill and physical grace

so that's why other people have been waving their arms and hopping all along...

#rambl #my twenties are me rapidly shedding autism layers

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there's a fantasy series (scholomance) I read where you cast spells with magical energy you gather by doing "otherwise pointless" work, like crocheting things you immediately undo, or push-ups

to improve mood & combat the upcoming nerfing of pregnancy, I signed up for a strength training session with CJ's trainer (and subsequently will refer to him as CJ's trainer even if he becomes my trainer, to microdose the frisson of implied infidelity). I had my first session lifting weights today, and came back wanting to write an effortpost on substack for the first time in months

I cast SUMMON LONGFORM THOUGHT

#rambl #emo repletion #guy talks too much though. I think he's trying to signal competence by infodumping about the muscle groups (which I don't care about) #and also Personability #but I do not want a personable trainer... i do not care about the muscles... i am impervious to being educated or befriended #but sadly. there is no way to say 'i am impervious‚ yet payful. please heed my preferences'

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I have no idea what makes the most sense to worry about as a parent right now but here's one: I manspread more than anyone I know... I'm typing this in a position I call 'the gynecology appointment' right now... my mom was always telling me not to do this (not the gynecology appointment, that would genuinely shock her, but more normal variants thereof) and I did not heed her admonitions, but as an adult I kind of see why you might not want your kid to do that

#rambl

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I now diagnose you husband & wife.

#eti's giant

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it DOES sound like a fan hallucination doesn't it? [evil cackling] stick with it, you cannot even UNDERSTAND the blorbo potential at this point...

delicious thing to hear but am also alarmed at the notion that the most popular Black Sails ship on AO3 might be canon... I don't want it to be canon... they always mess it up

#as long as they keep his Huge Loser & Piece of Work Nature i'll still largely be satisfied #dashreplies

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I'm terrible at getting into TV shows when they're actually trending on tumblr, but may try a bit harder to do so in the future because I'm watching Black Sails and, man, I have to wait all four seasons (or until I give up) to consume any tumblr posts about the show? I'd like to binge all the S1 gifsets and meta after S1, all the S2 meta after S2, etc

#rambl #black sails #speedrunning finding my spring 2024 blorbo... it's not going to be martin luther... dungeon meshi doesn't have the kind of blorbo I like... #but flint. i could do something with this guy. #i'm two episodes in and he's such a piece of work #technically i've been spoiled for a lot over the years but all i can remember is that he's gay which sounds like a huge fan hallucination

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sex / eye contact

#rambl #meanwhile on twitter

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on the one hand, after 15 hours of practice I enjoy salsa, I am no longer in complete confusion about what to do with my feet, I'm actively excited to learn new moves. I want a form of cardio that isn't jogging, I want to meet new people to bang

on the other hand, I hate eye contact, I hate touching new people, and I hate pleasantries. I would frankly be more socially and physically comfortable if everyone flung their clothes off and it descended into an orgy, idk what to do with this intermediate thing

and

(sniffs hands)

my hands smell unpleasantly perfumed after dances for some reason

#rambl

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when I was young I would piss off teachers (mostly inadvertently) and think "wow that was clearly an irrational thing for me to do, I will vaguely aim to not do that" and then I'd do it again anyway

I feel like I have the same thing with community organizers now

#rambl #criticized a volunteer policy a year ago and am still regretting it

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a five year old note among my 1588 saved notes that just reads: four-dimensional salmon

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#suffer puppet

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oh my god there was only one bed!

*gunshot rings out*

don't compromise on sleep, kids.

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#this happened to my good friend nicholas #house of niccolo

dostoyevsky kinda ate with “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

#nodding with a huge smile on my face #fandemonium #niccolo

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the Lymond Cluster of Bookspace, as far as I can tell:

(and there is a cluster, we must acknowledge – they are books that make us go AWOORAUGHRAUGH in the same way)

lymond (dunnett)

wimsey books (sayers)

vorkosigan saga (bujold)

captive prince (pacat)

#rambl #lymond #vorkosigan #i see the case for the lesbian necromancer books but it has insufficient One Clever Little Border Collie Who's Totally Insane energy #it's a great ensemble story with multiple border collies and the prose hits similarly but it's not... hm. i wouldn't count it #like the mood of the lymond cluster is a fujoshi inventing a guy to repeatedly stab and she's being really horny about it. #the closest is harrow but it's not close enough imo. it's too dignified #the lymond cluster has sacrificed a complete claim to be literature in order to be what it is

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For Dorothy Dunnett's novel Niccolò Rising (1986) and my recent trip to Bruges.

#OH MY GOSH NICCOLO FANART #niccolo #OP ENABLE TIPPING BEFORE TIPPING GOES AWAY

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a post I saw some years ago about how student email their professor laborious polite multiparagraph messages and the professor responds "k" is so true for my psychiatrist. I'm here using full punctuation and capitalization so that I can show that I am a Good Drug User Who Deserves More Anxiety Meds And Speed and he says "see you next Wed" without using a period

#rambl #i will add that the psychiatrist situation was so dire last year i resorted to coldly finding someone of the same ethnicity